Posts by bluepolo1971

London officials declare cabbie-bothering Uber is legal – for now

Re: Interested in the logic

No... because the fare is set in advance

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/34/section/11

Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998

11 Prohibition of taximeters.

(1)No vehicle to which a London PHV licence relates shall be equipped with a taximeter.

(2)If such a vehicle is equipped with a taximeter, the owner of that vehicle is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(3)In this section “taximeter” means a device for calculating the fare to be charged in respect of any journey by reference to the distance travelled or time elapsed since the start of the journey (or a combination of both).